There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the
cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss
Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the
other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother
and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to
join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that
if she ventures through that door, she may never come back. Shortly after moving
into an old house with strange tenants living in the flats above and below,
Coraline discovers a locked wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room.
Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies
behind it. Disappointingly, it opens on to a brick wall. Days later, after
exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same
mysterious door and opens it again. This time there is a dark hallway in front
of her. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it. It
looks like her own fl at and, strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too.
Only they're not quite themselves ? Soon Coraline finds herself caught in a
terrifying alternate world and she must battle to save herself, her family and
three lost children